The Brilliance Of Sam Raimi's Marvel New York City
There are elements of Marvel Comics' storytelling that maps cleanly to the big screen and remain selling points of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Other elements either fail to translate from the paneled page and still, others make the change and go unnoticed by a different kind of fanbase.
The MCU has featured some incredible locations, from the most luxurious vacation spots on Earth to the surface of far-away planets, to hidden fantasy lands beyond the veil of time and space. However, there is one place that's crucial to Marvel's legacy and the history of the medium but looks a bit more mundane.
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New York City is the home of many of Marvel's most iconic heroes. The company that would later become Marvel Comics proudly began in an office on West 42nd Street. Marvel's headquarters remain in The Big Apple to this day, only a few streets over at 135 West 50th. In-universe, the city is one of the most important places in the franchise as well. Stark Tower, which later becomes Avengers Tower, is located in Manhattan, the borough Tony was born in. Steve Rogers grew up in Brooklyn. Stephen Strange was born in Philadelphia, but grew up, went to college, and worked in NYC. The city also holds one of the three Sanctums that serve as Earth's magical centers. Spider-Man is from Queens and remains the most iconic hero of the area to this day. New York City is the site of Loki's alien attack that completely changed the world. All of that and much more took place in one of the millions of cities on Earth.
With New York City serving as the backdrop for so many of the MCU's most important events, it's a shame that most depictions make it entirely nondescript. It's always obvious that the
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